They can be used in the school system to justify different decisions and processes. In a teacher, and have had a few occasions where admin’s answer about highly disruptive students was to make sure we’re logging this stuff. It’s literally a record the school can use to argue for their decisions and defend themselves legally.
A parent threatening a lawsuit is a lot less scary when you have a year’s worth of records about all the stuff their child pulled and every step taken by the school to improve the situation.
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